COVID-19 concerns force shutdowns of Transit Windsor, playgrounds

[davewindsor]

Really? And how did you expect thousands of healthcare workers to get to work? With cars they don't own? I'm well off and do own a car.........but in my social circle, mostly at/under 45 years of age............I'm one of only 3 households that does. Among a group with an above average median income.

Taking transit in Toronto is not a choice, its normal. Its a default. People choose not to own cars when a parking space in a downtown condo sells for $60,000 extra.

London has a population of 9 million [[three times Toronto's population) with real estate prices a lot higher than Toronto and they shut down the tube and are in lockdown. How did they do it??

There's also thousands of healthcare workers that do have cars. They can organize car pools at the hospital. Everybody can chip in $5-$10/piece for a ride. The city can subsidize parking for workers who car pool. There's ways to make it work.

What percentage of total public ridership are healthcare workers anyway? Less than 1%?? Your social circle of a few people is not a representative sample of the whole population of Toronto. Most people are supposed to be self-isolating.

Where are you getting your information from anyway? Do you have a statistics website somewhere with who owns cars and who doesn't or do you just pull numbers out of your butt again as always.

Sigh.

You have no realization how others live. You're off in your own world.

Also....I'd like you to try taking 2 weeks of groceries for a household of one home on the bus........never mind, doing that for a family of 4.

Zero chance.

People can't stock up like that in Toronto, that's not the way this City is organized.

You think this is a joke, don't you? How are you supposed to contain a pandemic when it's half assed? It sounds like you're living in fantasy land again as always thinking it won't affect you.

The Spanish Flu of 1918 infected a third of the world and killed over 50 million people, 675,000 in the US [[when the population was a quarter of what it is today) because they were half assing everything back then. The death toll from the Spanish flu could have been significantly less in the US if the proper precautions were taken. You can't just respond, "that's not the way this City is organized" when talking about the enormous death toll of the Spanish Flu. Precautions should have been taken and they were not, even though the Manchurian plague occurred in 1910 killing 12 million people in China and India and the warning signs were out there to be prepared for the next great pandemic. Half assing things is not the way to minimize the devastation. If we don't contain it now, it'll get out of control later with many more times of casualties. Public transportation should be shut down.